February 8, 2025

✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-02-07

This week was all about hot headlines regarding disclosure and due diligence controversies.

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This week turned out to be a week where disclosure, due diligence, or an alleged lack thereof made for sizzling headlines.

Techmeme: Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old DOGE member, was fired by cybersecurity firm Path Network from an internship in June 2022 for allegedly leaking info to rivals (Bloomberg)

From Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.

Techmeme: Chat logs reveal DOGE member Edward Coristine's ties to cybercrime community The Com, and a Telegram handle linked to him sought a DDoS-for-hire service in 2022 (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

By Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security. View the full context on Techmeme.

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